V. I. Lenin

Concerning The Conditions Ensuring The Research Work Of

Academician I. P. Pavlov

and his associates

Delivered:24 January, 1921First Published:Published in the newspaperIzvestiaNo. 30, February 11, 1921; Published according to the original signed byLeninSource:Lenin’sCollected Works, 1st English Edition, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1965,Volume 32, page 69Translated:Yuri SdobnikovTranscription\HTML Markup:David Walters&R. CymbalaCopyleft:V. I. Lenin Internet Archive (www.marx.org) 2002. Permission is granted to copy and/or distribute this document under the terms of theGNU Free Documentation License

Decree Of The Council Of People’ Commissars

In view of Academician I. P. Pavlov’s outstanding
      scientific services, which are of tremendous importance to the
      working people of the world, the Council of People’s
      Commissars decrees:

1. To set up, on the strength of the Petrograd Soviet’s
         proposal, a special commission with broad powers, consisting
         of Comrade M. Gorky, chief of Petrograd’s institutions
         of higher learning, Comrade Kristi, and member of the
         collegium of the Petrograd Soviet’s Administrative
         Department, Comrade Kaplun; whose task is to create, as soon
         as possible, the best conditions to ensure the research work
         of Comrade Pavlov and his associates.

2. To authorise the State. Publishers to print, in the best
         printing-house, a de luxe edition of the scientific work
         prepared by Academician Pavlov, summing up the results of his
         research over the past twenty years, leaving to Academician
         I. P. Pavlov the right of property in this work in Russia and
         abroad.

3. To authorise the Workers’ Supply Commission to issue to
         Academician Pavlov and his wife a special ration equal in
         caloricity to two academic rations.

4. To authorise the Petrograd Soviet to assure Professor Pavlov
         and his wife of the use for life of the flat they now occupy,
         and to furnish it and Academician Pavlov’s laboratory
         with every possible facility.

Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars

V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

Moscow, the Kremlin,January 24, 1921